Reborn as the Villainess's Doomed Maid, I Keep Getting Caught by Her Knight Brother novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: The Library
The Queen's small council chamber was paneled in dark wood, with a long table and a fire, and it had no windows.
Mio stood at the foot of the table in her grey dress.
Two guards stood behind her, and she clasped her hands to keep them still.
The Queen sat at the head in a plain chair.
On her right sat the Prince, with his arms folded and a smirk.
On her left stood Caspian, in his black coat, with a face like carved stone.
He had not looked at her once since the guards brought her in.
"Tilda Quill," said the Queen.
"Your Majesty."
"You have served the House of Sevrin eight years."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"You can read and write."
"Yes."
"Did you write this?"
The Queen laid a folded paper on the polished wood and pushed it down the table.
Mio looked at it.
It was a single sheet, covered in loopy, warm handwriting with a big round capital D.
My dearest Duke, it began.
She read two lines, and her stomach turned over.
The body had made this.
The hand that wrote it was her hand.
But she, Mio, had never seen this letter in her life.
"No, Your Majesty," she said, and it was the truest thing she had said all week. "I did not write this letter."
The Queen's grey eyes did not move from her face.
The silence stretched.
"She is lying," the Prince said. "Look at her hands."
"What about her hands, Leopold?"
"They shake."
"Mine would, in a room with you."
The Prince's mouth opened and shut.
Someone, perhaps a guard, made a small noise that might have been a cough.
The Queen did not smile, but something in her eyes eased a little.
"I have a letter in the Saint's hand," she said evenly, "that the Saint says she did not write."
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